Famous Quotes About history

At an incredibly divisive point in pop history, Donna Summer managed to create an undeniable across-the-board experience of mass pleasure - after 'Bad Girls,' nobody ever tried claiming disco sucked again. It set the template for what Michael Jackson would do a few months later with 'Off The Wall.'

Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.

Failure is impossible.

You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration, of feudalism and tribalism.

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore we must be saved by faith.

Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.

May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that 'faith' is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.